Grand Canyon Times

Mike Davis, the founder and president of the Article III Project and former Chief Counsel for Nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, used the X platform to highlight discrepancies in the 2022 Arizona election. This post coincides with a request by former Attorney General Candidate Abe Hamadeh for a new trial regarding his election loss.

"Democrats stole the Arizona Attorney General race in 2022," Davis said. "Democrat Kris Mayes 'won' by 280 votes."

Numerous allegations of a flawed election have arisen since the November 2022 results, with both Hamadeh and former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake prominently raising concerns. Hamadeh, the former Republican candidate for the attorney general position, narrowly lost to Kris Mayes by a margin of just 280 votes, according to Arizona Daily Independent.

On election day in Maricopa County, nearly 20% of the voting locations, approximately one in four, encountered glitches. These unforeseen malfunctions affected multiple ballot tabulator machines and had a considerable impact on a total of 17,000 ballots in the county. As a result, concerns about the fairness and accuracy of the election process surfaced, leading to widespread accusations of fraud, according to the New York Times.

Hamadeh's pursuit of a new trial follows a December attempt that did not persuade a judge, primarily due to a lack of supporting evidence, to believe that widespread election misconduct had caused his election loss. However, Hamadeh claims that there are more than 500 uncounted votes in Pinal County alone, without considering discrepancies in other counties, including Maricopa. Additionally, his legal team has also said that there could be up to 1,000 rejected provisional ballots, according to AZ Mirror.

Last week, Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen finally signed the orders for Hamadeh's case, enabling him to proceed with an appeal. Hamadeh had been awaiting this signature for several months, as it was a prerequisite for initiating the appeal process. Despite urging from the Arizona Supreme Court, the court system's delays have prolonged the duration of his election contest to over 9 months and counting, according to Arizona Daily Independent.

"Closest statewide race in Arizona history with the biggest recount discrepancy in history; and still 9,000 Election Day uncounted provisional ballots — 70% voting Republicans," said Hamadeh in a post on the X platform. "But never question elections."